Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House is a children's Saturday-morning game show that ran on CBS. It premiered on September 14, 1996 and lasted until August 23, 1997. It featured the Cryptkeeper of Tales from the Crypt (with John Kassir as the voice) now serving as an announcer. It is the last TV series in the Tales From the Crypt franchise. Secrets of the Cryptkeeper's Haunted House received a Daytime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Game Show in 1997, losing to fellow CBS program The Price Is Right. The series is one of only two children's game shows to be nominated in this category, to be followed by BrainSurge in 2012. Game summary Two teams of kids (one team wearing red shirts; the other team, black shirts, and both teams usually named for a creature commonly perceived as scary, for example Beasts vs. Vermin) competed in five events. Four of the events were a constant, with the fifth event varying from one week to the next. Fireball Alley had one member of each team defending a set of six headstones from the fireballs of the computer-generated skull named Digger (voiced by Danny Mann). Aside from defending the headstones, the player had to keep from being knocked off the very unstable bridge and being vaporized via CGI effects, and appearing to explode. For each headstone that remained, Digger would give a list of four items, and for each list that the team identified the common bond, the team got five points for a possible total of 30 points. If all of the headstones were knocked over, the round was ended, and the player could not score any points, though they would not be vaporized. Worminator was usually the second round, and required both players to cross a wind tunnel while exchanging balls at three strategic points. Any dropped balls would be vaporized (as were any players that fell off the platform, though this ended the round) and no longer in play. At the end of the tunnel was a pair of bins; every ball deposited into either bin netted the team 10 points. If all three balls were dropped, or if the team did not deposit any balls in the bins within 35 seconds, both teammates were vaporized. If at anytime the team fails to exchange balls at any one of the strategic points, they will be disqualified. The Incredible Shrinking Room